Author: Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
Unaitwaje?
Author: Sharifa ZawawiPublisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Personal names used by the Waswahili people and their meaning
Library Journal
Author: Paboko
Author: Caroline MunywokiPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984583786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book is about an unusual friendship of two completely different characters from different backgrounds that forge a happily ever after friendship. It teaches resilience, patience, loyalty and trust. 1 Peter 4:8: “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
LEARN SWAHILI AND BE FLUENT
Author: Emanuel Michael KulayaPublisher: Emanuel Michael Kulaya
ISBN: 1791804497
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This book is very useful book for beginners and intermediate learners. You can even learn yourself at home. It includes all important topics that you must read for progress.
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
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Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.
Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics
Author: Ndimele, Ozo-mekuriPublisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN: 9785412784
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are grouped into four sections: Language and Society; Formal Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics, Language Acquisition & Lexicography. We hope readers will find these papers useful in their continuous quest for invaluable knowledge in African linguistics.
The Story of Swahili
Author: John M. MuganePublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.
The African Book of Names
Author: Askhari Johnson HodariPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757397735
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
From an author who adopted an African name as an adult comes the most inclusive book of African names. Obama, Iman, Kanye, Laila—authentic African names are appearing more often in nurseries, classrooms, and boardrooms. The African Book of Names offers readers more than 5,000 common and uncommon names organized by theme from 37 countries and at least 70 different ethnolinguistic groups. Destined to become a classic keepsake, The African Book of Names shares in-depth insight about the spiritual, social, and political importance of names from Angola to Zimbabwe. As the most far-reaching book on the subject, this timely and informative resource guide vibrates with the culture of Africa and encourages Blacks across the globe to affirm their African origins by selecting African names. In addition to thousands of names from north, south, east, central and west Africa, the book shares: A checklist of dos and don'ts to consider when choosing a name—from sound and rhythm to origin and meaning A guide to conducting your own African-centered naming ceremony A 200-year naming calendar
Swahili Major Key
Author: Emanuel Michael KulayaPublisher: Emanuel Michael Kulaya
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This book is for Swahili High Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced Students
Pastimes and Politics
Author: Laura FairPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821440934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community within this new environment. In this study Laura Fair explores a range of cultural and social practices that gave expression to slaves’ ideas of emancipation, as well as how such ideas and practices were gendered. Pastimes and Politics examines the ways in which various cultural practices, including taarab music, dress, football, ethnicity, and sexuality, changed during the early twentieth century in relation to islanders’ changing social and political identities. Professor Fair argues that cultural changes were not merely reflections of social and political transformations. Rather, leisure and popular culture were critical practices through which the colonized and former slaves transformed themselves and the society in which they lived. Methodologically innovative and clearly written, Pastimes and Politics is accessible to specialists and general readers alike. It is a book that should find wide use in courses on African history, urbanization, popular culture, gender studies, or emancipation.